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Silvi

Girls' name

Short form of Silvia

Silvi has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Silvi, 2022

1 in 564,000

Silvi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvi: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Silvia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silvi means

Silvi is a short form of Silvia.

Origin, language, and formation

Silvi is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Silvi between 2009 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2018; its best national rank was #15,066 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Silvi?

Silvi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvi was born before 2018 — so the typical Silvi is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Silvi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (6)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,066
2022

Spellings of Silvi

Silvi is not the most common spelling — Sylvia is, with 81.0% against Silvi's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Silvi around the world

Where Silvi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1969–1982
    #1,387
    in 1982
  • South Australia
    1957–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Silvi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#15,066
2022
Peak year
2018
6 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Silvi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SiloeSilahSilkaSilpaSiliaSiljaSilkeSilyaSilasSiljeSolviSilkenSilbiaSillaSilvyaSillerSilvieSilinaSilkSelviSilayahSiloamSilenceSilviana

Sibling names for Silvi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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